V. Joseph Hotz is a Research Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He also is the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy Emeritus at Duke University. His research areas include the economics of the family, economic demography, labor economics, population health, and applied econometrics. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and the National Institute on Aging (NIA). Hotz is principal investigator of the Add Health Parent Study, a study of intergenerational linkages in health, cognition and economic well-being between parents and their adult children; the Great Smoky Mountains Study of Rural Aging and the Mid-Life Health Inequalities in the Rural South study which are examining aging at midlife in rural America; and the Collaborative for Innovation in Data & Measurement in Aging (CIDMA), which fosters and supports innovations in data and measurement in studies of aging. All are funded by the National Institute on Aging.

Hotz received his B.A. in Economics from the University of Notre Dame and Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society, Society of Labor Economists, the Southern Economics Association, and the International Association of Applied Econometrics.

Hotz joined IZA as a Research Fellow in June 2008.